By Fun Guy Fungi
My name is Enigma Guy. I’m a Shy Guy, in case you couldn’t figure it out. I’m the guy they come to when they can’t figure it out. Who are they, you ask? Changes from client to client. If you could look inside my office right now, you’d see a blue-cloaked Shy Guy in a trench coat and matching fedora, puffing on a bubble cigarette. I keep two bands with me at all times. One’s a music band, Koji Kondo’s greatest hits, in convenient CD form. The other’s a rubber band, in convenient pistol form. That’s why, I suppose, I’ve also been called the one Shy Guy who’s not Shy. I haven’t got any qualms about nosing in other people’s business. When you’re a kid, you get spanked for doing that. When you’re an adult, you become a private eye and meet all sorts of interesting people. I did. Anyway, you probably came here to hear about the sugarcoated robbery. Well, it went something like this…
I was in my office one overcast June morning when I get this letter from a Paratroopa. It’s from Castle Koopa about a crime. You may ask why I would help the Koopas. Two reasons, really: I’m really kind of neutral, not good or evil and more importantly, they pay well. I knew the kids pretty well, enough to know their hobbies and personalities, so I went over to have a look. Boy, what a crime. Turns out Larry, the younger one, got this big old jawbreaker with his allowance, but like sheep to the slaughter, he put it in his safe. That night, of course, like all good mysteries, the other six kids came to steal it. Luckily for my investigation, King Koopa had just installed a security camera in the hall. There were a total of seven visitors to the hall. Yeah, seven. I thought that maybe one of them would be Larry checking on the jawbreaker, so I knew I could discount one. Maybe. I checked the videotape. The visitors went like this:
1. The first one came in, but swept a vase off a shelf. They looked real strong, since that vase weighed
about fifty pounds and he/she knocked it off like a fly. They got scared off by the noise and ran away.
2. The second guy came in, but hit the broken shards of the vase. There was a loud popping noise, and
their height dropped by about a foot. They got scared off by the noise too and ran away.
3. The third one came in, noticed the shards, and swept them away. As they did, something fell out of
their pocket. It opened and released a cloud of powder. That spot, according to King Koopa, smelled sweet
the next day. They noticed they were being videotaped and ran away.
4. This fourth guy came in and right away dropped on their hands and knees, searching around like that
girl Velma on that one show with the mystery dog. The record shows the person having hair that stood up on
end, like it was all spiky. The guy finally found what they were looking for, but they too noticed the camera
and ran away.
5. The fifth one comes in, then looks around with a telescope to see if there’s anybody there. They are
wearing this outfit that looks like a secret spy thing. After a while they go away.
6. The sixth one comes in. The sound tape picks up the target whistling a Beethoven symphony. They
start to use a laser thing to cut open the safe, but just as they're about to open it, the seventh one hits them
on the head.
7. This seventh one grabs the laser device and cuts off the rest of the safe, then gets away with the
jawbreaker.
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